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Jan 19, 2014KateHillier rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Revisionist history tends me make me wary but seeing this one in our library's new acquisitions made me curious. In the world of this book Margot Frank survived the Holocaust and is now living in Philadelphia as a Gentile legal secretary named Margie Franklin. She wears a sweater at all times to cover her branded number from the camps and her late sister's diary has just been turned into a movie. Margot/Margie spends most of the book wound up tighter than a spring - the movie has brought back the past she is trying to hide and has never really dealt with. She's probably got some form of PTSD for sure and is also suffering under the strain of lying and hiding for so long. Her guilt is immense as is her pain and does nothing but illustrate exactly how inconceivable the Holocaust is to anyone who did not have to live through it.